Actually, the 4 months is an average taken from blood serum studies of patient antibody levels after disease. It has nothing to do with the geographic spread of the disease. I’m don’t think the study was even conducted in the US or on American patients.

Personally, I’m much more deeply concerned about the blood clots (at least as concerned with my own health) than I am about the pneumonia as I’ve known several people with deep vein thrombosis and who have died of embolisms and aneurisms. It’s just insane to me that people think they’re out of the woods once they get past the “flu” part of this or have mild symptoms. I think this explains the jump in unexpected deaths from heart attacks and strokes.

I agree best strategy is to reduce spread until there’s a vaccine. And yes, I too believe it will be a yearly injection from here on out.